Support and guide for fancy-rolls.



A. H. MORTON.

SUPPORT AND GUIDE FOR FANCY ROLLS.

APPLICATION FILED APR. 27, 1911.

Patented Nov. 24, 1914.

THE NORRIS PETEES CO.. FHOTC-LITHU. WASHINGTON, D. f

ALBERT H. Ii/IORTON, OF LOWELL, MASSACHUSETTS.

SUPPORT AND GUIDE FOR- FANCY-ROLLS.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Nov. 24, 1914.

Original application filed February 12, 1910, Serial No. 543,570. Divided and this application filed April To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ALBERT H. MORTON, of Lowell, in the county of Middlesex and the Commonwealth of Massachusettts, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Supports and Guides for Fancy- Rolls, of which the following description and claims, with the accompanying drawing, is a specification.

This application is a division of my application No. 543,570, filed February 12, 1910, for a patent for improvements in carding-engines.

This invention relates to means for supporting-and-guiding the fancy-roll of a carding-engine between its operative and its inoperative positions.

This invention relates to the class of carding-engines in which each engine has a main-cylinder, a doii'er, and a fancy, and in which each such part has a casing; the cylinder-casing comprising main-bends or arches and thin sheet-metal covers; the doffer and fancy casings, each comprising shrounds and thin sheet-metal covers; the doffer and fancy covers being fastened to their respective shrouds by screws having heads projecting radially outward from their covers; and, the cylinder and fancy casings being fitted and secured, the one to the other, with corresponding openings therethrough extending across the engine from bend to bend and registering the one with the other. In the engines of this class, it is customary to frequently remove the fancy-casing, containing the fancy, from its operative position, in which it is secured to the cylinder-casing, to an inoperative position where it rests against a stop that is located above the doffer-cover and fastened thereto, and later, to return it to and secure it in its operative position with its opening again registering with the corresponding opening of the cylinder-casing.

The invention consists essentially in means extending from near the operative toward the inoperative location of the fancy-cover for supporting-and-guiding the fancy-cover between those locations and in combination therewith of other parts.

In the drawings, which show my invention only in the preferred form: Figure 1 is a side-elevation with the fancy in its 0perative position. Fig. 2 is an enlarged sideelevation with the fancy-cover touching the Serial No. 623,774.

roll-way. Fig. 3 is an end-elevation of the hook engaging the stop. Fig. 4: is a projection of the fancy-stand upon a plane that 1s radial to and contains the axis of the main-cylinder. Fig. )5 is a sectional-elevation of the fancy journal-bearing and a part of its stand. Fig. 6 is a longitudinal section of the journal-bearing, a fancy-shroud, and a portion of the fancy-cover.

In the preferred form of the invention, the main-cylinder casing 1 supports the fancy-stand 2. The dofier-casing 3 includes the sheet-steel doffer-cover 1st. The stop 4 is located above, supported by, and fastened to the doffer-cover. The stand 2 has a support-and-slideway 5 upon which rests or slides the ournal-bearing 6 of the fancy. The fancy-casing is numbered 7 The sheet steel fancy-cover is numbered 15. These parts are asusual. 1

Each one of the two supports-and-guides or roll-ways comprises a steel foundation 8 which conforms in shape to and, when in use, rests upon the top of the doffer-cover near one end thereof. One end of the foundation, when in use, is positioned beneath the operative location of the fancy-cover; The other end of the foundation terminates in the hook 9 for detachably engaging the stop t in the hole 10. A soft, frictional, upper face of leather 11 is secured to the foundation to lessen the liability of the slipping of the fancy-cover upon the roll-way. The foundation 8 and its facing 11, taken together, constitute a strip which is especially well adapted for service as a support-and-guide or roll-way. The strip is thicker than any outward radial projections from either cover including such projections of any screw-heads which fasten the doifer and fancy covers to their.respective shrouds. This thickness prevents any such projecting parts from colliding with either cover as the fancy-cover rolls upon the strips. If the thickness of the strips was less than the outward radial projection of such parts such collision would occur, the direction of the axis of the fancy would be shifted, the fancy-casing would not roll back to its operative location, its opening would not registerwith that of the cylinder-casing and the strips would be unsuitable for guides or roll-ways for the fancy. The pair of supports-andguides or roll-ways, as they are constructed,

are entirely satisfactory as supports-andguides and as roll-ways. Two strips only are provided for a group of carding-engines. They are transferable from engine to engine throughout the group. W hen a fancy is to be moved, the pair of strips rests upon the corresponding dofl'er-cover, one strip near one end and the other strip near the other end thereof. There are two fancy-stands :2 with slide-ways 5 one on each side of the engine. The slideways are so directed relatively to the strips, as is shown in Fig. 2, that the fancy approaches the strips as the bearings 6 6 slide there upon during the movement of the fancy from the operative position. Each shroud of the fancy-casing has a projecting flange 13. When the operative moves the fancy, he stands in front of the doffer, facing the engine and grasps the flange 13 with one hand and the corresponding flange at the opposite end of the fancy with the other. He then draws the casing forward. The bearings slide upon the stands until the fancy-cover 15 touches the strips, then the fancy-cover rolls upon the strips until it contacts with the stop, as is shown by dotted lines in Fig. 2, and the fancy rests in its inoperative position. The fancy is re turned to its stands and its casing is returned to its operative location by a reverse movement and secured therein.

It is not essential to my invention: that the strips should have a metallic foundation and a frictional covering; that the strips should rest upon the dofler-cover; that the strips should be in engagement with, that is, attached to the stop; that the fancy-cover shall roll on the strips, or that the stop shall be located above or fastened to the doifer-cover. It is essential that the fancy shall be supported and guided between its operative and inoperative locations by means extending from near the operative toward the inoperative location of the fancy.

I claim:

1. A carding engine having, in combination, a main cylinder, a fancy therefor, means to support the fancy in operative position, a doffer-cover, means on the doffercover to support the fancy in inoperative position and stationary friction strips on the doffer-cover for supporting the fancy while it is being transferred from operative to inoperative position, substantially as described.

2. In a carding-engine having a doffer cover, a fancy having a cover and a stop for the fancy-cover, the combination therewith of: a pair of strips for roll-ways for the fancy between its operative and inoperative positions, each strip being curved to fit the top of the doffer-cover, having a metallic foundation for location beneath the operative position of the fancy-cover at one end and having a hook for detachable engage ment with the stop at the other end, the foundation having a frictional covering for the roll-way.

In testimony whereof, I aflix my signature in the presence of two witnesses.

ALBERT H. MORTON. Witnesses CHANNING WHITAKER, IRVING D. KIMBALL.

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